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Spark Annual Report.Pdf INDEX 01. Preface by the Board of Directors 04 - Enterprise Development North Kosovo 52 - Business Start-up Centre Zimbabwe 55 02. Executive Summary 06 - Bridging the Divide 57 - Higher Education Highlights 07 - Private Sector Development Highlights 08 4.3 Research 62 - World Bank research on youth exclusion - SPARK as part of Consortium Highlights: 08 62 - SPARK for Improvement Highlights 09 4.4 SPARK as Part of a Consortium 63 - “I don’t need a parachute... to land in Europe!” 64 03. Background and Mission 11 - Visually Impaired Persons Business Support Programme, Molova 65 13 - Youth Entrepreneurship Civil-Public Partnership 67 - Strategy 13 - Young Employed and Independent 69 - Key/guiding principles - Hanga Umurimo Project 70 - Job Search, Basic Managerial Skills, Work Efciency Skills, 71 04. Our Passion 14 Attitude, Behaviour & Ethics and Basic IT Skills 4.5 Project Development and Fundraising 72 4.1 Higher Education 15 - Fundraising - International Business College Mitrovica 17 72 - Youth engagement in Political Parties - Mitrovica Youth Programme 22 74 - M&E solution for Youth Empowerment Programme - Scholarship Database for Western Balkan Students 28 76 - Diploma Acceptance Project 77 4.2 Private Sector Development 30 - Overview Fundraising 78 - Enterprise Development Programme (MFSII) 32 - Burundi 35 - Rwanda 37 - Liberia 39 - Palestinian Territories 41 - Kosovo 43 - Regional Private Sector Development in Southeast Europe 44 - Support to Economic Development of Minority Communities in 48 Eastern Kosovo 02 INDEX 05. Organisation 79 07. Main targets and budget 2011 105 - Current areas of Responsibility 80 - Strategy and Objectives 2011 81 08. Financial 113 - Reection on Targets 2011 82 - Organisational Actors 84 - Board of Directors 85 - Staff 85 - Interns 85 - Volunteers 86 - Supervisory Board 87 - Report by the Supervisory Board 88 - Accountability statement 90 - Committee of Recommendation 92 - HR policy 93 - ICT and Knowledge management 94 - Partners 95 - Partner policy related to capacity building 96 - SPARK Communications 96 06. SPARK for improvement 98 6.1 Quality 99 - Quality 99 - ISO certicate, ANBI and CBF 100 - Quality standard for development sector 100 - Complaint policy 101 6.2 Transparency, Innovation and 101 Learning - TranSPARKency 101 - Brilliant Failures 102 - Learning 103 03 PREFACE BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Dear reader, It is with great pleasure that we present the Annual Report 2011. In 2011 SPARK ventured out into new countries with entrepreneurship development programmes. In line with our mission, we continue the focus on job creation and sustainable economic development in fragile states. A brand new ve year programme kicked off in 2011, implemented by the “United Entrepreneurship Coalition” (UEC) started in ve locations: Kosovo, the Palestinian Territories, Liberia, Rwanda and Burundi. In each of these locations, SPARK and its consortium members, support local organisations to create jobs and boost sustainable economic growth. The new programme also brings with it signicant changes in the internal organisation, especially with regards to monitoring and evaluation and partner management. Besides our new entrepreneurship programme mentioned above, the single most important activity of SPARK continues to be the International Busi- ness College Mitrovica (IBCM). This internationally registered higher vocational business school developed rapidly and saw its student numbers increase to 158 in 2011. It also started preparation for constructing new premises, attain international accreditation and develop its international double Bachelor degrees. SPARK also set an overall target to create, between 2012 and 2015, 20.000 new jobs in the (fragile) states we operate in. This will be the guiding principle of the organisation in the coming years. Besides the programmes already in place, new initiatives will continue to be developed to bring about this prime economic development objective. SPARK also remained dedicated to transparency as one of our key guiding principles. We believe that, in a world which is gradually recovering from economic crises and a political climate in which budget cuts are increasingly likely, it is important to give a full insight into the use of funds, allowing everyone to follow our spending and track our results – and failures. The whole development sector has come under scrutiny during the last couple of years and there is increasing pressure on the sector, from the beneciaries, the public at large and donors, to show that we do things well by being open about our work. To this end, the TranSPARKency website remained instrumental throughout the year, keeping our nancial records public up to receipt level. Additionally, nal concrete steps were taken to make SPARK’s the rst IATI compliant organisation in the Netherlands in 2012. 04 As a result of the rapidly diminishing support base for development cooperation in the Netherlands, SPARK intensied its emphasis on building partnerships with other countries and raising support in innovative ways. This will continue to be a focus area in the coming years and including setting up partnerships with the government of the countries we operate in, and develop stronger ties with the private sector. The sector is becoming increasingly competitive, which means that SPARK needs to work hard to shape and strengthen its added value. Much time and effort was therefore spent on developing SPARK activities and services. Moreover, in order to further improve the quality of operations within the NGO sector, SPARK continues to strive for the introduction of an ISO quality label for development aid NGOs specically. We worked hard to ensure that our aid continues to support stabilisation in the regions in which we operate and we remain dedicated to our mission to empower young people to lead their post-conict society into prosperity. We hope this Annual Report will answer all your questions about our work in 2011 and we invite you to contact us if you have any questions or need further information. Yours truly, Yannick Du Pont, Director Michel Richter, Co-Director 05 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In 2011, SPARK embarked on several new projects and programmes, developing the organisation physically by expanding to new countries, and internally by making structural changes. The secured grant from the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs (NLMFA) dominated the agenda in 2011. The MFSII programme not only had the greatest inuence on SPARK’s expansion to new countries, but also in SPARK’s internal organisation. Signicant changes were made with regards to monitoring and evaluation and partner management. The MFSII programme required SPARK to make three main internal organisational changes. One was the development of the monitoring and evalua- tion capacity; an M&E manager was hired and concrete steps towards the development of the M&E system were made. Another was related to the 25% non-NLMFA funding rule, which required SPARK to invest more into fundraising and therefore improve its fundraising capacity. The third change was the focus on developing distinct SPARK specic activities and services, requiring SPARK to develop its own capacity to deliver services to partners in SPARK projects and to projects of other organisations. Many more achievements were made in the past year. Below are some highlights from 2011. As before, SPARK was active in projects dealing with higher education and private sector development. In addition to SPARK’s own projects, this year’s annual report also recognises the projects in which SPARK was a partner in a consortium. ■ Higher Education Highlights: The International Business College Mitrovica (IBCM), which offers 2-year double vocational professional qualications, as well as 3.5-year Bachelor programmes all taught in English, has steadily been growing with more students enrolling than the previous year and also more staff being hired. The IBCM has seen some new positive developments in 2011 and is preparing for its rst graduation ceremony that will be held in March 2012. The Winter University in Mitrovica was again successfully organised by the University. The event continues to be important for local teachers and 07 students by exposing them to international teaching methods and discussions. Students participated in the two-week course that aims to not only educate, but also improve, inter-ethnic understanding and support access to Higher Education of non-majority communities in Southeast Europe. The SPARK-initiated Scholarship Database for Western Balkan students continued to provide a valuable service to students seeking to study abroad, thereby accelerating the integration process of Southeast European students into the EU, primarily in the eld of education. ■ Private Sector Development Highlights: As was mentioned before, our largest highlight of 2011 was the MFSII programme. 2011 marked the start of the 5 year MFSII era. This meant also much attention and focus would be placed on MFSII-related projects. The start of the year saw the recruitment of new staff and of course the Country Managers for the 5 new MFSII countries; Rwanda, Burundi, Liberia, Kosovo and the Palestinian Territories. Project Activity Sheets were developed by the partners together with the Country Managers and activities began. SPARK set several targets for itself for 2011, which were almost all met or exceeded. For example, SPARK planned for 210 jobs to be created through 90 new businesses and in the MFSII programme alone 165 jobs through 46 businesses were
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